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Chinese
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white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous |
colt
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| trad. (白駒)
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白
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駒
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| simp. (白驹)
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白
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驹
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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白
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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bái
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ bæk ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*bˁrak/
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| English
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white
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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白
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駒
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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207
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7094
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Phonetic
component
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白
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句
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Rime
group
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鐸
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侯
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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白
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拘
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Old
Chinese
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/*braːɡ/
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/*ko/
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Noun
白駒
- (literary) white colt
皎皎白駒，食我場苗。縶之維之，以永今朝。所謂伊人，於焉逍遙。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
皎皎白驹，食我场苗。絷之维之，以永今朝。所谓伊人，于焉逍遥。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Jiǎojiǎo báijū, shí wǒ chǎng miáo. Zhí zhī wéi zhī, yǐ yǒng jīnzhāo. Suǒwèi yīrén, yú yān xiāoyáo.
- Let the brilliant white colt,
Feed on the young growth of my vegetable garden.
Tether it by the foot, tie it by the collar,
To prolong this morning.
So may its owner of whom I think,
Spend his time here at his ease!
- (literary, figurative) person of intelligence and integrity; recluse
- (literary, figurative) passing of time; fleeting of time
Derived terms
Japanese
Noun
白駒 • (hakku) ←はくく (fakuku)?
- a white horse (horse with a white coat)
- years, passing of time, time
- (shogi) white horse (a piece in chu shogi and larger shogi variants)
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